Hello and welcome to my homepage last

updated February 21,  2008

Hi, I'm Ernie Barsamian and thanks for dropping by my homepage. As you can see, I am a novice at creating a webpage but it has been a fulfilling experience nonetheless.

So who is Ernie Barsamian ?? (and who really cares???)……………

I was born and raised in West Roxbury, MA and graduated from the Roxbury Latin School in 1977 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 (BSE in Chemical Engineering but don’t ask me any thermo questions). At Penn, I was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. Following Penn, I worked in Sudbury, MA, Enfield, CT, Keasbey, NJ and Danbury, CT for the Union Carbide Corporation. I was in their Linde Division which is now its own company è Praxair. During my time with them in NJ, I played semi-pro football for the New Jersey Oaks. Following all of that fun getting dirty in the plants and on the football field, I went back to graduate school and received an MBA in Financial Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. After all that nonsense, I was married to Jeanine Hearne in 1988 and we now have 3 sons ages 16, 14 and 12.

Since then I've been employed with Hess Corporation in a variety of different functions. One of the most interesting was a 2-year stint at their refinery in St. Croix, USVI shortly after we were married!

Another fringe benefit is that I can collect Hess trucks although my kids don't think that they are that much fun sitting in their boxes. 

I invite any fellow alums, former worker buddies and old friends to drop me a line and let me know what you're up to.

 All in all, it’s been great so far!

So what do I do for fun …here are some of my Hobbies and Interests:

• Weight Training è (3 days a week, up at 5:30 am. It’s not worth it but if I quit I’ll be an endomorph. I matched a  personal best on October 9th, 2006 with a bench press of 385 lbs. Not bad for a 46 yr old.)

• Golf (I shoot around 100, play only 3 times a year but I usually average one beer per hole).

·          I am presently an Old Boy on the PAC…here’s me and the Wharton Rugby crew :

• College football investing (in Las Vegas only). 
• Running road races (Falmouth Road Race 7.1 miler every year). Now I just walk the race...but it beats watching it!

• Gardening …Vegetables..if you can’t eat it, I don’t grow it
• Drinking beer.

• Cranking Bruce Springsteen. I have over 150 bootlegs for my listening pleasure and have seen him in concert 42 times.

• My first concert was August 1978 in Providence, RI

• Born in the USA Tour August 1984 at the Meadowlands

• Tunnel of Love Tour May 1988 at Madison Square Garden

• HT/LT Tour August 1992 at the Meadowlands.

• Reunion Tour July 29, Aug 6 and Aug 9, 1999 at the Meadowlands, August 21, 1999 in Boston, Sept 15 and Sept 25, 1999 in Philadelphia, May 7, 2000 in Hartford, June 17, 22, 26 and July 1, 2000 at Madison Square Garden.

• Special Shows: December 17, 2000 in Asbury Park. May 27, 2001 at the Stone Pony, August 18, 2001 at the Stone Pony and December 6, 2001 in Asbury Park. 

• Rising Tour:  I attended the rehearsal show on July 30, 2002  in Asbury Park and the August 7,2002 show at the Meadowlands and Philly Oct 6, 2002 and Atlantic City March 7, 2003.  The Rising summer was the summer of Bruce...I was at 6 shows at Giants stadium...7/15, 7/18,  7/27, 8/28, 8/30 and 8/31 and at the Philadelphia show on 8/8.   I also went to the Shea Stadium finales on October 3 and 4th  AND in Asbury Park for the Christmas Shows December 5 and 8th!  

• Vote For Change: In 2004 I went to the October VFC shows in Philly and in NJ.   

• Devils & Dust In 2005 I was at the 2nd Asbury rehearsal and at the Meadowlands shows on  May 19, 2005 and November 16, 2005.  I was also at the tour finale in Trenton on November 22, 2005 and the Seeger Sessions Tour April 26 in Asbury Park (final rehearsal).

• September 28, 2007 Magic Rehearsal at Continental Arena and the October 10, 2007 show there as well.

•  If any of you have been to these shows and need a copy of the concert, let me know.

         OTHER HOBBIES

• Backyard astronomy..

• Coin collecting (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, halves, dollars – all US).
• Sports Fan: New England Patriots , Boston Red Sox (Manny, Papi and Schilling rule), Boston Celtics, Ivy league football and Ivy League basketball (Let's Go Quakers!).
• This is a YAZ, the best clutch hitter of all time:

• watching my kids play Little League, youth soccer and basketball.
• playing with my wife, Jeanine, => look she’s happy!

• and going sledding with my kids

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The one hobby that has turned into an addiction is :

$$$ INVESTING $$$

….$$$ My Worthless Commentary $$$ ….

First of all, I’m just another investor like you. I’m not a licensed securities professional or a financial advisor (nor do I want to be) so in no way should this be construed as me providing information to anyone. This is not investment advice, just a reflection of what I’m doing presently in the market. So take it for what it’s worth => PLEASE è everyone looking at this website should do their own homework. Anyway:

Here are all of my open positions for stocks that I bought using my quantitative investment model which I describe below:

STOCK	DATE IN	PAID	NOW	GAIN	TARGET
OFG	4/5/2004	29.01	20.87	-28.1%	33.5
NUTR	5/28/2004	24.21	13.47	-44.4%	28.1
NUS	7/8/2004	24.29	15.96	-34.3%	28.0
TOL	6/28/2005	50.19	21.51	-57.1%	57.8
KBH	7/22/2005	82.59	24.68	-70.1%	95.2
MFLX	3/6/2006	60.50	19.71	-67.4%	69.7
MTEX	10/17/2006	17.22	6.66	-61.3%	19.9
TWGP	10/25/2006	35.38	27.73	-21.6%	41.1
PSPT	1/24/2007	22.59	13.00	-42.5%	26.0
AFLYY	4/27/2007	51.65	27.00	-47.7%	59.6
CAE	7/26/2007	70.25	50.86	-27.6%	80.9
PCP	9/21/2007	145.25	117.31	-19.2%	167.3
VDSI	10/17/2007	43.27	18.27	-57.8%	50.2
BOOM	1/8/2008	55.20	59.34	7.5%	63.7

Here are all of my closed trades, using the same model, since March 11, 2004: